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TRADITIONAL
KNOWLEDGE, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, AND INDIGENOUS CULTURE
Benjamin
N. Cardozo
School
of Law
Yeshiva
University
February
21-22, 2002
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DESCRIPTION
In
recent years, the misappropriation of traditional knowledge, folklore,
and genetic resources has become an increasingly important issue in the
international trade arena, impacting on a wide variety of policy areas,
including food and agriculture, biological diversity and the
environment, human rights, cultural policy, scientific research, and
trade and economic development. This issue becomes even more important
in light of growing dissatisfaction with the international trading
system among less developed countries and recent anti-globalization
protests in Seattle, Washington, Prague, Quebec, and Genoa. To explore
the role of intellectual property rights in protecting traditional
knowledge, folklore, genetic resources, and indigenous creations and
practices, Cardozo brings together academics, intellectual property
lawyers, government officials, and representatives of intergovernmental
and nongovernmental organizations.
This
symposium will address the following questions: How do we define
folklore and traditional knowledge? Should we—and can we—protect
traditional knowledge and indigenous creations under the existing
intellectual property and cultural property regimes? What are the
implications of protecting folklore for art and museums? How can we
balance the protection of traditional innovations and genetic resources
of indigenous peoples against the need for these materials in genomic
research and the development of pharmaceuticals, nutriceuticals, and
bio-engineered products? Should we develop a global regulatory regime or
should we strive for diverse protection that is consistent with a
country's local conditions? How can countries and trading blocs
effectively negotiate traditional knowledge in domestic and
international fora?
SCHEDULE
February
21, 2002
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8:00 |
Continental
Breakfast
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8:50 |
Welcoming
Remarks
Dean
David Rudenstine, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva
University
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9:00 |
The
Protection of Folklore
Moderator:
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Toni
M. Fine, Director of Graduate and International Programs,
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University
Speakers:
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Prof.
Andrew Kenyon, University of Melbourne Faculty of Law
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Prof.
Paul Kuruk, Cumberland School of Law, Samford University
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Prof.
Samuel K. Murumba, Brooklyn Law School
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Dr.
Sankuratripathi Rama Rao, Senior Counselor, World Intellectual
Property Organization
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Justice
Ronald Sackville, Federal Court of Australia
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Prof.
Susan Scafidi, Dedman School of Law, Southern Methodist
University
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Dr.
Silke von Lewinski, Head, Department of International Law, Max
Planck Institute for Foreign and International Patent,
Copyright and Competition Law
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10:45 |
Coffee
Break
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11:00 |
Folklore,
Cultural Property, and Museums
Moderator:
Speakers:
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Prof.
Terence N. D’Altroy, Department of Anthropology, Columbia
University
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Prof.
Patty Gerstenblith, DePaul University College of Law
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Prof.
Sarah K. Harding, Chicago-Kent College of Law
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Dr.
Francis P. McManamon, Chief Archaeologist, National Park
Service
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Prof.
Robert K. Paterson, University of British Columbia Faculty of
Law
Commentator:
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12:45 |
Lunch
Break
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2:30 |
Conceptualizing
Traditional Knowledge
Moderator:
Speakers:
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Dr.
Gerard Bodeker, Global Initiative for Traditional Systems of
Health, Green College, University of Oxford
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Gavin
Clarkson, Olin Fellow in Law, Economics, and Business, Harvard
Law School & KPMG Fellow, Harvard Business School
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Prof.
Daniel J. Gervais, University of Ottawa Faculty of Law (Common
Law Section)
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Prof.
Mark L. Movsesian, Hofstra University School of Law and
Visiting Professor of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law,
Yeshiva University
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Prof.
Mark Perry, Faculties of Law and Computer Science, University
of Western Ontario
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Prof.
Jerome H. Reichman, Duke University School of Law
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Jayashree
Watal, Counselor, Intellectual Property Division, World Trade
Organization
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4:15 |
Coffee
Break
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4:30 |
Biotech
Patents, Genomic Research, and Indigenous Resources
Moderator:
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Roberto
Mucaro Borrero (Taino), Program Coordinator, Education
Department, American Museum of Natural History
Speakers:
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Prof.
Keith Aoki, University of Oregon School of Law
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Prof.
Margo A. Bagley, Emory University School of Law
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Prof.
Russel Barsh, New York University School of Law
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Prof.
Michael H. Davis, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland
State University
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Debra
Harry, Executive Director, Indigenous Peoples Council on
Biocolonialism
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Prof.
Paul J. Heald, University of Georgia School of Law
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Remigus
Nnamdi Nwabueze, Centre for Innovation Law and Policy at the
University of Toronto Faculty of Law
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Prof.
Valerie J. Phillips, School of Accounting, Information Systems
& Business Law, Washington State University
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6:15 |
Reception |
February
22, 2002
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8:00 |
Continental
Breakfast
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8:50 |
Welcoming
Remarks
Richard
C. Owens, Executive Director, Centre for Innovation Law and
Policy, University of Toronto Faculty of Law
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9:00 |
Globalization,
Harmonization, and Indigenization
Moderator:
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Prof.
Peter K. Yu, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva
University & Research Associate, Programme in Comparative
Media Law & Policy, University of Oxford
Speakers:
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Prof.
Rosemary J. Coombe, Faculty of Arts, York University
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Prof.
Charles R. McManis, Washington University School of Law
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Prof.
Ruth Gana Okediji, University of Oklahoma College of Law
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Hon.
Weerawit Weeraworawit, Minister (Commercial Affairs), Ministry
of Commerce, Thailand
Commentators:
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Prof.
Wendy J. Gordon, Boston University School of Law
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Prof.
Edmund W. Kitch, University of Virginia School of Law
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Prof.
John O. McGinnis, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva
University
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11:00 |
Coffee
Break
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11:15 |
Negotiation
of Traditional Knowledge in Domestic and International Fora
Moderator:
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Richard
C. Owens, Executive Director, Centre for Innovation Law and
Policy, University of Toronto Faculty of Law
Speakers:
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Prof.
Graeme W. Austin, James E. Rogers College of Law, University
of Arizona
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Prof.
Graeme B. Dinwoodie, Chicago-Kent College of Law
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Anthony
Gonzalez, U.N. Liaison, International Indian Treaty Council
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Pamela
Kraft, Executive Director, Tribal Link Foundation
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Linda
S. Lourie, Attorney-Advisor, Office of Legislative and
International Affairs, United States Patent and Trademark
Office
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James
Love, Director, Consumer Project on Technology
Commentator:
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Prof.
Shubha Ghosh, University of University at Buffalo Law School,
SUNY
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Prof.
Hugh Hansen, Fordham University School of Law
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1:00 |
Conference
Adjourned |
SYMPOSIUM ISSUE AND OTHER
PUBLICATIONS
11
Cardozo J. Int’l & Comp. L. 239–830 (2003)
Peter
K. Yu, Traditional Knowledge, Intellectual Property, and Indigenous
Culture: An Introduction, 11 Cardozo J. Int'l & Comp. L. 239
(2003)
Keith
Aoki, Weeds, Seeds & Deeds: Recent Skirmishes in the Seed Wars,
11 Cardozo J. Int’l & Comp. L. 247 (2003)
Graeme W. Austin, Re-Treating Intellectual Property? The WAI 262
Proceeding and the Heuristics of Intellectual Property Law, 11
Cardozo J. Int’l & Comp. L. 333 (2003)
Margo A. Bagley, Patently Unconstitutional: The Geographical
Limitation on Prior Art in a Small World, 87 Minn. L. Rev. 679
(2003)
Russel Lawrence Barsh, Pharmacogenomics and Indigenous Peoples: Real
Issues and Actors, 11 Cardozo J. Int’l & Comp. L. 365 (2003)
Gerard Bodeker, Traditional Medical Knowledge, Intellectual Property
Rights & Benefit Sharing, 11 Cardozo J. Int’l & Comp. L.
785 (2003)
Gavin Clarkson, Racial Imagery and Native Americans: A First Look at
the Empirical Evidence Behind the Indian Mascot Controversy, 11
Cardozo J. Int’l & Comp. L. 393 (2003)
Terence N. D'altroy, Reinventing Unchanged Andean Traditions, 12
Cardozo J. Int'l & Comp. L. 83 (2004)
Michael H. Davis, Some Realism About Indigenism, 11 Cardozo J.
Int’l & Comp. L. 815 (2003)
Patty Gerstenblith, Acquisition and Deacquisition of Museum
Collections and the Fiduciary Obligations of Museums to the Public,
11 Cardozo J. Int’l & Comp. L. 409 (2003)
Daniel J. Gervais, Spiritual But Not Intellectual? The Protection of
Sacred Intangible Traditional Knowledge, 11 Cardozo J. Int’l &
Comp. L. 467 (2003)
Shubha Ghosh, Reflections on the Traditional Knowledge Debate, 11
Cardozo J. Int’l & Comp. L. 497 (2003)
Shubha
Ghosh, Globalization, Patents, and Traditional Knowledge, 17
Colum. J. Asian L. 73 (2003)
Sarah Harding, Defining Traditional Knowledge—Lessons from Cultural
Property, 11 Cardozo J. Int’l & Comp. L. 511 (2003)
Paul J. Heald, The Rhetoric of Biopiracy, 11 Cardozo J. Int’l
& Comp. L. 519 (2003)
Charles R. Mcmanis, Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources and
Traditional Knowledge Protection: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally,
11 Cardozo J. Int’l & Comp. L. 547 (2003)
Remigius N. Nwabueze, Ethnopharmacology, Patents and the Politics of
Plants' Genetic Resources, 11 Cardozo J. Int’l & Comp. L. 585
(2003)
Robert K. Paterson & Dennis S. Karjala, Looking Beyond
Intellectual Property in Resolving Protection of the Intangible Cultural
Heritage of Indigenous Peoples, 11 Cardozo J. Int’l & Comp. L.
633 (2003)
Mark Perry, Digital Propertization of the New Artifacts: The
Application of Technologies for "Soft" Representations of the
Physical and Metaphysical, 11 Cardozo J. Int’l & Comp. L. 671
(2003)
Valerie J. Phillips, Half-Human Creatures, Plants & Indigenous
Peoples: Musings on Ramifications of Western Notions of Intellectual
Property and the Newman-Rifkin Attempt to Patent a Theoretical
Half-Human Creature, 21 Santa Clara Computer & High Tech. L.J.
383 (2005)
Lucille A. Roussin, Cultural Heritage and Identity, 11 Cardozo J.
Int’l & Comp. L. 707 (2003)
Ronald Sackville, Legal Protection of Indigenous Culture in Australia,
11 Cardozo J. Int’l & Comp. L. 711 (2003)
Silke von Lewinski, The Protection of Folklore, 11 Cardozo J.
Int’l & Comp. L. 747 (2003)
Weerawit Weeraworawit, Formulating an International Legal Protection
for Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore: Challenges
for the Intellectual Property System, 11 Cardozo J. Int’l &
Comp. L. 769 (2003)
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